The flag of IDECOOP features a white field with three stripes of red, white, and blue running horizontally through the center of the field. Surmounting all is the agency's oval logo, centered, as seen in a photograph online. The logo itself shows a map of the Dominican Republic in the colors of the national flag. At the center of the map is a yellow circle with two green pine trees. Below the map is the agency's acronym (IDECOOP) in green capital letters. Arched around the inside top of the oval is the agency's name in black capital letters (INSTITUTO DE DESARROLLO Y CREDITO COOPERATIVO), while the name of the country is in similar letters at the bottom of the oval (REPUBLICA DOMINICANA), with no accent on the capital "U." Randy Young, 21 May 2015
The Dominican Republic's Institute for Development and Credit Cooperatives (Instituto de Desarrollo y Credito Cooperativo, IDECOOP) is a subordinate part of the Ministry of Agriculture that is "the governing body for cooperatives in the Dominican Republic, autonomous, with its own ... independent assets and unlimited duration, with capacity to contract and acquire rights and obligations." IDECOOP was created on 25 October 1963 by Law 31, according to the Google translation of the agency's website. Randy Young, 21 May 2015
